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While many have seen a lot of this stuff, I thought perhaps a comprehensive thread on one of the more influential designers would be a nice place to discuss コム・デ・ギャルソン and all the endeavours of its various contributors. If this is out of line or belonging elsewhere please accept my apologies !



 
top row, left to right: designer rei kawakubo, deputy-chief pattern cutter makiko hatakeyama, knitwear deigners rikuko ikeuchi, pattern cutter hirofumi ikenami, production manager shigeru tsuchida, production mikito nishimura, production chief hiroyuki sato, pattern cutter ashiko yana, deputy knitwear/accessories keiichi tanikoshi, model amy nemec.
 
middle row, left to right: pattern cutter tamima akiyama, pattern director yoneko kikuchi, managing director tsubomi tanaka, production yuichi omaru, pattern cutter chizu hirose, head pattern cutter keiko yamazaki, chief pattern cutter masako masaki, production taichi yoshida.
 
bottom row, left to right: pattern cutters yasuko masubuchi, yusuke monden, tetsuya hashimoto, shiro miyao, yusuke horihata, knitwear miwako netsuka, knitwear/accessories yuzo takenaka, pattern cutter emi akutsu

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Comme des Garcons Homme Plus Evergreen boiled polyester jacket
Size: S
100% polyester / cotton shell fabric
From 2006S/S collection







Comme des Garcons tartan check pants
Size:SS
From 2005S/S collection
100% wool shell fabric







Comme des Garcons Homme Plus boiled wool jacket
Size: S
100% wool shell fabruc, garment milled
From 2009 A/W collection








Comme des Garcons Homme Plus boiled wool / polyester coat
Size: S
100% wool / polyester shell fabric, garment milled
From 2009 A/W collection







Comme des Garcons Homme Plus boiled polyester coat
Size: S
100% polyester shell fabric, garment milled
From 2007S/S collection







Comme des Garcons Homme Plus boiled wool / polyester jacket
Size: S
100% wool / 100% polyester
From 2009 A/W collection







Comme des Garcons Homme Plus double sleeves jacket
Size: S
100% wool
From 2009 S/S collection




Comme des Garcons Homme Plus boiled wool coat
Size: S
100% wool, garment milled
From 2008A/W collection

*** Wanted this so bad :o







Comme des Garcons Homme Plus patchwork shirt
Size: F
100% cotton shell fabric
2000 S/S collection








Comme des Garcons irregular top
From 1996S/S
Material: 100% polyester knitted fabric
Size: S








Comme des Garcons boiled wool vest
Size: M
Material: 100% wool, garment milled
From 1994 A/W collection







Junya Watanabe MAN CdG jacket
Size: M
From 2004A/W
100% wool shell fabric




Comme des Garcons Homme Plus jacket
2006S/S
Polyester blend fabirc
size: M







Comme des Garcons deconstructed 1/2 jacket
size SS
100% wool shell fabric
From 2008A/W collection







Comme des Garcons boiled wool coat
Size: M
From 1994A/W collection
100% wool shell fabric
Garment milled








Comme des Garcons Homme Plus boiled wool jacket
From 1994 A/W collection
Size M
100% wool shell fabric
Garment milled







Comme des Garcons Homme Plus Evergreen milled polyester pants
Size: S
100% polyester fabric
Garment milled
from 2009S/S collection






Comme des Garcons SHIRT line patchwork cardigan
Size: M
100% wool knitted shell fabric
from 2009 A/W collection






Junya Watanabe Comme des Garcons irreguar biker jacket
Size M
100% cotton shell fabric
From 2007A/W collection






Comme des Garcons Homme Plus boiled wool jacket
Size M
100% wool shell fabric
1999 A/W collection






Comme des Garcons Homme Plus boiled wool jacket
Size M
100% wool shell fabric
From 1999A/W collection






Junya Watanabe Comme des Garcons down jacket
Size S
100% polyester shell fabric
From 2003A/W collection







Junya Watanabe MAN Comme des Garcons patchwork M65
Size S
100% cotton shell fabric
From 2006A/W collection







Comme des Garcons reconstructed jacket
Size S
100% nylon and wool shell fabric
From 2006S/S collection







Comme des Garcons deconstructed dress
Size S
100% wool and 100% polyester shell fabric
From 2008A/W collection







Comme des Garcons reconstructed tartan check skirt
Size S
100% cotton shell fabric
From 2006S/S collection






Comme des Garcons Homme Plus skirt pants
Season: 1999A/W
Material: 100% wool






Junya Watanabe CdG transformable coat.
Season: 2005A/W
material: Goretex
Size:S






Comme des Garcons Homme Plus boiled polyester zip up jacket
season: 2009S/S
material: 100% polyester, garment milled
size:M






Comme des Garcons Homme Plus A/W2007 boiled polyester pants
size: SS
material: 100% polyester, garment milled






Comme des Garcons Homme Plus Evergreen 06S/S boiled wool jacket
Size: M
Material: 100% wool / 100% cotton






Comme des Garcons Homme Plus 99A/W silk scraf made jacket
Size: L
Material: shell fabric silk, inside 100% wool






Comme des Garcons 97S/S
size: Free
Material 100% wool 100% cotton






Comme des Garcons
"Little Black Dress"
Women's AD 2000
100% cupro
Made in Japan







Comme des Garcons
Skirt
Women's [xx]
100% rayon
Made in Italy








Comme des Garcons
Skirt
Women's [??]
50% vinyl chloride / 50% cotton with 100% cupro lining
Made in Japan







Tricot Comme des Garcons
Skirt
Women's AD 1999
59% silk / 41% cupro
Made in Japan

Note: Colourful second layer through a slit on the left-hand side of the skirt.







Comme des Garçons Homme 2002
Composition: wool, poly/nylon attachment








Comme des Garçons Homme Plus AW 2003
Composition: wool, nylon, cupra lining






Comme des Garçons
Twisted Knit Cropped Cardigan
Womens AW2002
80% Wool 20% Nylon
Made in Japan

Knit is the same as the larger cardigan. This style features a notched collar.







Comme des Garcons
Robe de Chambre
Black Jacket with Red Lining and Brass Buttons
Women's
Outer - 100% Wool
Lining - 60% Cupro/40% Polyester
Made in Japan







Comme des Garçons
Jacket/smoking
Surface: triacetate, polyester; attached fabric: polyester; lining: cupra
AD 1992
Made in Japan




cdg shirt, w10029
blk single breasted jkt, "wood pattern" shawl lapel, two horn buttons, unlined, no vent.
55% polyester, 45% wool
attached fabric 100% polyester
made in france
 


 
 
cdg shirt, w13804
navy bomber jkt with raw edge and top stitchings.
100% nylon
mesh lining 100% polyester
made in france
 


 
 
 
cdg h+ evergreen ss 2009
blk overdyed short blouson with zip and grey inserts
100% polyester 
insert: 55% polyester, 45% nylon
made in japan
 




 
 
 
cdg h+ evergreen ss2007
blk overdyed single breasted long jkt with studs
100% polyester
made in japan
 



 
 
 
Comme des Garçons Homme Plus
Boiled Polyester Blazer with "Picnic Cloth" Piping and Lining
Mens SS 2010 
100% Polyester
Made in Japan
 




 
 
 
Comme des Garçons
2-Layer Trousers in mismatched herringbone fabrics
Womenswear AW 2000
Style: EP-020055
Fabrication: inner and exterior 100% Laine Wool, Lining 100% Cupro
Made in Japan
 
notes: a functioning zipper traverses the entirety of the back waist band. Opened, it allows the weaving of layers so that what is outer and inner become more ambiguous.
 





 
 
 
Comme des Garçons
Cropped Wrap with Large Pin Closure and Sangallo Lace Trim
Womenswear SS 1999
Fabrication: 100% Cotton
Made in Japan
 
Notes: Slight padding in cap sleeve to add structure
 





 
 
 
Comme des Garçons
Tweed Jacquard Military Jacket with Deconstructed Tail
Womenswear SS 2009
Style: GC-0123
Fabrication: 100% Polyester
 



 
 
 
Comme des Garcons Homme Plus
Sweater
Mens AW 93-94
100% Rayon
Made in Japan
 




 
 
 
Comme des Garcons Homme Plus
Wool suit
Mens / AW10-11
100% Wool
Made in Japan
 



 
 
 
Comme des Garçons
circle skirt
Women's A/W 2002
80% wool / 20% nylon + 100% wool
Made in Japan
 
Two different knits combined. Matches the cardigan below.
 




 
 
 
Comme des Garçons
circle cardigan
Women's A/W 2002
80% wool / 20% nylon
Made in Japan
 





 
 
 
Comme des Garçons
double sweater
Women's A/W 2000
outer 75% wool / 25% nylon, inner 100% wool
Made in Japan
 
Shown zipped asymmetrically. The layers can also be worn separately.
 





 
 
 
Comme des Garçons
wrap pants
Women's S/S 2000
100% cotton
Made in Japan
 
Constructed from two large pieces of fabric connected with a center seam. Worn by wrapping around the body in both directions and securing with ties. Note: not the original color. These pants were available in a few different colors, including a midnight blue which sold out failyl quickly.
 



 
 
 
Comme des Garçons
jacket
Women's S/S 2000
surface 100% triacetate, attatched fabric 90% nylon / 10% polyurethane
Made in Japan
 
Woven outer shell, jersey lining. Reversible.
 





 
 
Comme des Garçons
knit wrap top
Women's A/W 1999
100% wool
Made in Japan
 
Multicolored and -textured. Wraps around the shoulders and neck and is secured with a giant safety pin.
 
 





 
 
 
Comme des Garçons
t-shirt
Women's S/S 1997
cotton / elasthane (presumed - fabric tag faded)
Made in Japan
 
Seams and armholes displaced to the front.
 




 
 
 
Comme des Garçons
pullover
Women's A/W 1996
90% wool / 10% nylon
Made in Japan
 
Flocked velvet pattern. Comes to a point at the neckhole.
 





 
 
 
Comme des Garçons
wrap top
Women's A/W 1996
surface 100% cotton, filling 100% polyester, lining 100% cotton
Made in Japan
 
Neutral cotton with flocked velvet pattern. Padded. Has four armholes; wraps around the body and is secured with a giant safety pin.
 





 
 
 
Comme des Garçons
elephant leg trousers
Women's S/S 1990
100% polyester
Made in Japan
 
Lightly padded fabric, inner drawstring.
 



 
 
 
Comme des Garçons
Short Sleeve Multi-layered, Structured Fabric Jacket with Tails
Women's SS 2010 (AD2009)
Fabrication: main 100% cotton; attached fabric 1) rayon, cotton, poly; 2) 100% cotton; 3) 100% cotton
Made In Japan
 
Notes: jacket is structured with the use of top-stitching. Lapels fall asymmetrically.
 





 
 
 
Comme des Garcons Evergreen
 
Blazer lined with chains
Men's/Season ?
100% boiled polyester
Made in Japan
 




 
 
 
Comme des Garcons Homme Plus
 
Cotton trench with contrasting buttonholes and shorter sleeves.
Men's/Spring 2008
100% cotton
Made in Japan
 



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Comme des Garçons
T-shirt for women
Made in Japan
AD 2006, runway SS 2007
 
Black t-shirt with ruffles on the shoulders, there are 3 different kind of ruffles with different fabrics.
 
Composition : 100 % cotton
Ruffles : (1) : 100% polyester, (2) : 100% polyester, (3) : 100% nylon
 
 
GS-T001
 




 
 
 
Comme des Garçons
T-shirt for women
Made in Japan
AD 2006, SS 2007
 
100% cotton
 
GS T-028
 
"The colour and texture of the printed motif may change somewhat with wear and washing"
 



 
 
 
comme des garçons
hands-up knit jumper
 



 
 
 
Comme des Garçons
Bouclé Free Knit Shawl Cardigan
Womens AW 02 (AD 2002)
75% Wool (tag worn...)
Style: EG-J019
Made in Japan
 




 
 
 
Comme des Garçons Homme Plus
Sweater
 
 
Comme des Garçons Homme Plus
Sweater
 
Mens Spring 2001
Body 100% Polyester
Leaves 100% Wool
 

 
 
 
Comme des Garçons
 
Pants for women
AD2002, spring/summer 2003
Made in Japan
 
The color is really green, like kaki green, or moss green, but it the picture didn't get it (the runway pic is closer).
Composition : 100% cotton
The fabric is pretty thick and the braid makes it quite heavy compared to any usual pant.
 
"Creases in the fabric are intentional. Texture will alter with wear and cleaning. This item has unfinished hems. The raw edges will fray with repeated wear and cleaning. The shape of the garnment may alter slightly with wear and cleaning."
 





 
 
 
Comme des Garcons Homme
Brown boiled wool blazer
collection unknown
100% wool
Made in Japan
 



 
 
 

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Thanks to the hard work of all those uploading such 
beautiful images to the internet for us to enjoy

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Fall 1987





Spring 1988 ( / André Kértesz)






Fall1988





Fall 1988 (Inoue Tsuguya / Jim Britt)




Spring 1989





Spring 1989 (Inoue Tsuguya / Lilo Hess, Enzo Cucchi)






Spring 1990 (Inoue Tsuguya)







Fall 1991 (Curtis Knapp)





1992 (Max Vadukul)






Spring 1993 (Ken Ohara, eye)





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1994 (Marc Atlan ? / Keizo Kitajima)





1994 (Cindy Sherman)

 
 
 



Spring 1995 (Keizo Kitajima)

 



Fall 1995






1997 (Inoue Tsuguya)





Spring 1997





Spring 1997 (CdG for Merce Cunningham)





Spring 1998 ( / Roman Signer)





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Fall 2000





Spring 2001





Fall 2002 (Jeff Mermelstein)






2005





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2006





Fall 2007 (Ronnie Cooke Newhouse - Stephen Wolstenholme)





Spring 2008 (Ronnie Cooke Newhouse - Stephen Wolstenholme)

  



Spring 2008





Fall 2008 (Mondongo)








Fall 2008 (Risa Fukui)





Spring 2009 (/ Autoportraits by Berge Jensen 1920-2008)





Fall 2009





2010 (Ronnie Cooke Newhouse - Stephen Wolstenholme / Daniel Clowes)





Spring 2010 (Stephen J. Shanabrook & Veronika Georgieva, paper surgeries)





Fall 2010 (Ronnie Cooke Newhouse - Stephen Wolstenholme / Sculptures by Simen Johan)

 



Spring 2012 (Ronnie Cooke Newhouse - Stephen Wolstenholme)






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(Ronnie Cooke Newhouse - Stephen Wolstenholme / Collier Schorr)




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wow , what a wealth of information.

aw2001 is probably my favourite season. such crazy colours.




what's your opinion on COMMA COMMA aka Rex? A lot of those images come from his store. I've been there a few times.

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By CATHY HORYN
Published: May 30, 2012

TO appreciate the designs of Rei Kawakubo, the woman behind the label Comme des Garçons, it helps to be a specialist in fashion, or something of a kook.

Let’s consider her latest collection, shown in March in Paris. Not only were the brightly colored felt garments of a fun-house scale, but they were also completely flat. A dress had a front and a back, and the two pieces were joined at the sides. The simplicity was such that a clever child, using a cookie cutter, tracing paper and the photocopying services of Kinko’s, could produce the basic pattern. The wool felt was a good technical choice for the floating two-dimensional shapes, but the design, more than being merely simple, seemed to disclaim design.

Reaction during the show was immediate.

Editors smiled and nudged one another as the silly tents came down the bare plywood runway. Gradually, though, their gooey looks of delight turned to serious interest and finally to pleasure, the deep pleasure of seeing something rare and fully resolved and resistant to syllogisms.

Was Ms. Kawakubo commenting on the flattening of the world by the Internet? Was the lady, by fabricating such harmonious volumes without padding or other means, calling out lazy and weak-minded designers who tout couture techniques and don’t create anything new? Even the industry’s craze for bold color combinations and archival prints seemed to land in her cross hairs, and, not surprisingly, her choices were marked by intensity.

If Karl Lagerfeld is the leading talk artist of fashion, Ms. Kawakubo is the Mona Lisa. She makes no effort to reveal her meanings, though at times she explains her methods. That day in Paris, standing backstage, she greeted each guest with a brisk ceremonial nod. Small, nearly 70, she wore a black cotton jacket buttoned to the neck, black dhoti shorts and sunglasses that seemed a mischievous touch of celebrity — and that she has. No living designer with the exception of Azzedine Alaïa is held in higher esteem by her peers, and none has enriched our spirit in so many original and confounding ways.

“Kawakubo has done everything,” Jun Takahashi, the respected creator of Undercover, has said.

Indeed. On Monday, the Council of Fashion Designers of America will honor her with a lifetime achievement award.

Ms. Kawakubo, who lives in Tokyo, does not plan to attend the festivities, said her husband, Adrian Joffe. As much as it would thrill to see her on the Lincoln Center stage, it’s hard to imagine her actually being there. She stopped appearing on her own runway long ago, though she is easily accessible backstage and in her showroom.

In addition to managing Comme des Garçons Parfums and many day-to-day matters, Mr. Joffe serves as his wife’s interpreter (he is fluent in several languages). It is Mr. Joffe who provides journalists with a brief, prepared explanation after every show. In March it was: “the future in two dimensions.”

And, of course, the statement, while not pure nonsense, turned out to be pure quicksand, sucking people in.

The truth is that Ms. Kawakubo is not interested in seeking answers, at least not to the conventional type of questions asked above. She is not an artist, and she doesn’t consider herself to be one, per se, though her work over the last 30 years, since she assaulted people’s consciousness with a collection called Destroy, has impelled serious consideration far beyond fashion. (Ms. Kawakubo, who is the sole owner of Comme des Garçons, a small, $200 million conglomerate with a number of brands, including Junya Watanabe, once said that if she is anything, it’s a businesswoman, and then added, “Well, I’m an artist-businesswoman.”)

In 1996, Ms. Kawakubo presented a collection called Dress Meets Body Meets Dress, which featured disfiguring lumps of cotton wadding covered with cheerful gingham. She was criticized for being “antiwoman,” yet a closer look at her silhouette revealed that she was probably neutral on the subject of gender, and instead had done something of more profound meaning: she had recreated a reality of the late 20th century — that of the individual seemingly joined to her burdens, like a backpack.

Since then, Ms. Kawakubo’s work has grown in clarity and wisdom. Last October, a collection titled White Drama referred to ceremonial occasions, like a wedding, and was assumed by many to relate to her widely admired Broken Bride show, in 2005. For fall 2012, she followed with her two-dimension collection.

Ms. Kawakubo, however, insists that she is not a feminist, and that her work has nothing to do with being a woman. “I was never interested in any movement as such,” she said a few years back. Her position is at best ambiguous; early in her career she embraced such ideas. It may also be true that as her work has matured, she has reached wholly different conclusions about what nourishes the creative process.

No one has ever sufficiently explained how she has been able to retain the spirit of the 1970s and early ’80s, particularly its sense of experimentation, without getting mired in it. In all the years I’ve known Ms. Kawakubo, which is close to 15, I’ve never heard her talk about the past, nor have I thought to ask her. With many designers of her generation, the past is like a giant wading pool on a hot day.

“She’s not greedy,” the art director Ronnie Newhouse said, suggesting that the way Ms. Kawakubo chooses to live relates directly to her design process. Journalists often find it hard to take her at her word: that she lives a relatively normal life, in Tokyo. “Can’t rational people create mad work?” she once asked a writer.

A few years ago, while reporting an article about her, I asked Mr. Joffe if photos could be taken of her work space. He said it wouldn’t serve any purpose. He was right. The Comme des Garçons headquarters, which occupy several floors of a banal office building, look like design studios everywhere, and may even be drabber.

In the end, Ms. Kawakubo’s example may prove that the last thing you need to be in the creative fields is a specialist. In fact, it may be a hindrance, blinding you to new feelings. I recently asked Ms. Kawakubo one or two specifics about her design methods, mainly to be clear about what I already knew. Did she use a so-called “mood board,” for instance?

Here is her reply, by e-mail. I reprint it in total. It says everything, and it could not be said better.

“My design process never starts or finishes. I am always hoping to find something through the mere act of living my daily life. I do not work from a desk, and do not have an exact starting point for any collection. There is never a mood board, I do not go through fabric swatches, I do not sketch, there is no eureka moment, there is no end to the search for something new. As I live my normal life, I hope to find something that click starts a thought, and then something totally unrelated would arise, and then maybe a third unconnected element would come from nowhere. Often in each collection, there are three or so seeds of things that come together accidentally to form what appears to everyone else as a final product, but for me it is never ending. There is never a moment when I think, ‘this is working, this is clear.’ If for one second I think something is finished, the next thing would be impossible to do.

“Often the elements are completely disassociated in time and dimension. One might be an emotion, the next thing a pattern image, the third thing an object or a picture I have seen somewhere. I can never remember when and from where the elements come together in my head. I trust synergy and change. For fall 2012, I was thinking about no design being design, about very ordinary fabric (wool felt) being strong. Somehow, the two-dimension level of thinking became apparent.

“I do not feel happy when a collection is understood too well. For me, White Drama was too easily understood, the concept too clear. I feel better about fall 2012, because it wasn’t too clear, and some people assumed things it had nothing to do with, like the Internet age.

“The struggle to find something new gets more and more difficult with time and experience, so this time, for fall 2012, my feeling was to try to make a collection by doing very little.”

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